The Count of Monte Cristo strategem

One nice thing about fresh eyes is that it makes you reconsider what you did in the first parts of a book.  Two people thought it was funny but unbelievable that Rhiannon wouldn't know that a fire-breathing dragon could light a fire better than her.  I kept it, but had her make the same observation, crediting her denseness to her anger at male ego (every woman can relate to that.  A guy actually being better than you at something.)  A couple have voiced problems with the deus ex wyrm of Lido just showing up.  Now you can add Lido and Rhiannon to that chorus.  (There is a reason, but the reader learns it when Rhiannon does).  Another coincidence was dealt with in a similar manner.  I'll call this the Count of Monte Cristo gambit. I read the extravagant way in which he arrives at a hotel in preparation for his revenge to my spouse, and she said, "What, no dancing girls?"  On the very next page, one of the characters goes, when told of the extravagance, 'What, no dancing girls?"  It's a great technique to put a reviewers problem in the mouth of a character.